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Blade Manufacture in Southern California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

B. K. Swartz Jr.
B. K. Swartz Jr.*
Affiliation:
Klamath County Museum, Klamath Falls, Ore.
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Abstract

The striking of long, slender, parallel-sided flakes, or blades, from prepared cores has long been known in the Arctic and Mesoamerica. Small pointed blades with distinctive triangular cross section are also found in the Late Horizon in both mainland and island Canaliño sites in that part of the Santa Barbara Channel region of southern California which was ethnographically occupied by the Chumash.

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American Antiquity , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , January 1960 , pp. 405 - 407
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1960

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